Medicaid

Despite millions in federal funding to combat the opioid crisis and task forces developed to study it at both the state and city level here, not much has changed. The crisis continues unabated here, and overdose deaths soar. Why?

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Despite millions in federal funding to combat the opioid crisis and task forces developed to study it at both the state and city level here, not much has changed. The crisis continues unabated here, and overdose deaths soar. Why?
Some of the expanded...

Maryland and other states have reached a $209.2 million settlement with the owner of Walgreens drugstores over allegations of a scheme to over-dispense insulin pens to Medicare and Medicaid recipients.
Maryland will receive $266,951 and will split that...

I commend Gov. Larry Hogan’s office for the work they’ve done to expand Maryland Medicaid to include hearing aids (“Maryland Medicaid program expands to pay for devices for hearing-impaired adults,” Jan. 9). We want to celebrate this win but not lose...

Several types of hearing devices will now be covered by Medicaid in Maryland for those over age 21, the Department of Health and the Governor’s Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing announced Wednesday.
Previously, the federal-state health program for the...

Many expect that a Texas judge’s ruling Friday that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional will be overturned on appeal. The reason for that is that it’s flat-out nuts. It posits that because the Supreme Court previously upheld the law’s individual...

Transdev Services, which operated the Charm City Circulator until October, paid $160,000 this week to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company and its predecessor, Veolia Transportation Services, underpaid five paratransit drivers, who took Medicaid...

The new CEO of Maryland’s largest health insurer wants to explore means of lowering health care costs for all state residents, as well as expanding its own reach through the Medicare and Medicaid government health programs.
Brian D. Pieninck, named...

Everyone wants to age in place — their own place. As age and infirmity take their toll, more people want to face those challenges in their own homes with help.
Before 1999, Marylanders who need as little help as someone to assist in bathing and...

The pharmaceutical wholesale firm AmerisourceBergen Corp. has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Maryland and several other states and the federal government that alleged the company fraudulently marketed adulterated drugs to vulnerable cancer patients....

When Deanna Kopf was pregnant with her third child in 2007, she planned to use a midwife for a natural delivery at home. But those plans didn’t go quite as expected and she and her husband ended up delivering their son themselves.
“He came very fast...

Maryland may have allowed residents who did not qualify for Medicaid into the government health program for the poor by failing to consider all of their income, according to a routine audit of the quasi-governmental agency that oversees the Maryland...

U.S. residents pay outrageously high prices for their prescription drugs. According to the online magazine The Hill, “Americans pay prices for prescription drugs that are two to six times the rest of the world, despite having personal incomes that are...

Over the weekend, the Department of Homeland security announced that immigrants who legally use public benefits like food assistance, Medicaid or housing could be denied green cards in the future. To those who think that the U.S. has too many immigrants...

Last year, Baltimore area food bank operators noticed a significant downturn in Latino clients. They worried that local immigrants — with legal status and green cards — were deliberately avoiding applying for the SNAP program out of fear that they’d be...

After years of instability and rising health care costs for consumers, Consumer Health First was thrilled to see the two insurance carriers for Maryland’s individual market — CareFirst and Kaiser Permanente — lower their premium rates for next year....

To have a bad tooth quit hurting reminded me how fortunate I am. Being pain-free is not an equal opportunity state of being. Dental care is out of reach for too many Americans, unless we break with our current politics and culture.
Studying health...

State officials plan to announce Wednesday that the Trump administration has approved a federal waiver that is expected to stave off increases in health insurance costs for more than 200,000 Marylanders.
The two main sponsors of the legislation...

You can feel the glee radiating from Gov. Larry Hogan’s re-election campaign at The Sun’s report Tuesday on a Department of Legislative Services estimate of what it would cost to implement a Maryland single-payer health care plan like the one Democrat Ben...

State-sponsored health insurance for all Marylanders such as the single-payer plan proposed by Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ben Jealous could cost $24 billion a year, forcing lawmakers to significantly raise taxes, according to a nonpartisan analysis....